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The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu as a Young Man Holding a Folded Letter by Nishimura Shigenaga
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu as a Young Man Holding a Folded Letter

Nishimura Shigenaga · ca. 1765

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Artist

Nishimura Shigenaga

Date

ca. 1765

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

27 7/32 x 6 15/32 in. (69.2 x 16.4 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Asian Art

Culture / origin

Japan

Credit line

The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911

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Artist authority

Nishimura Shigenaga

Japanese printmaker (1697–1756)

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Q11628686

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